I'm migrating to a new virtualised environment which only has small SSDs for the VMs. I have a FreeNAS server running that stores all the non OS related data. I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 64Bit. I have also tried with Lubuntu and Ubuntu.
I'm not running Plex directly on the FreeNAS box as it doesn't have the processing power of the main cluster, and I've never gotten on well with FreeNAS jails.
I have tried installing Plex and keep running into problems when I point the metadata at the FreeNAS box. When everything is installed locally, the libraries get added and metadata scraped without a problem.
When I point to the network file store, Plex will sometimes add the libraries but not scrape any information, sometimes corrupt the database, sometimes scrape a few files before corrupting the database.
My assumptions is that it's file permission issues, but I've tried setting the owner and group to plex from the Plex VM, and from FreeNAS. I've tried assigning file permissions of 777 with the hope I could at least get it working. I have added extra groups to the plex username e.g. root and my local username.
I am using a soft link to reference the metadata. E.g. ln -s /mnt/FileServer/PlexMetaData '/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/'. This gives the correct file structure and plex is able to read from that directory.
I have mounted the FreeNAS shares as both NFS and CIFS, both have the same issues.
I have installed the latest plex media server 1.2.7.2987-1bef33a.
Has anyone had / solved similar issues, or know an easy way to get it working?
Thanks